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You can almost see princesses bobbing gaily in the branches as you walk through
the enchanting forest, past the white marble
Temple of Love
to the queen's fake-peasant
Hamlet
(le Hameau)
. Marie-Antoinette's happiest days were spent at the Hamlet, under a
bonnet,tendingherperfumedsheepandmanicuredgardensinathatch-happywonderland.
Despite her bad reputation with the public, Marie-Antoinette was a sweet girl from
Viennawhoneverquitefitinwiththefast,sophisticatedcrowdatVersailles.Shemadethe
Petit Trianon,
a masterpiece of Neoclassical architecture, a place to get away and re-cre-
ate the simple home life she remembered from her childhood. Here she played, while in
the cafés of faraway Paris, revolutionaries plotted the end of the
ancien régime
.
